Dime Box Richard wrote:
<<At any one time as many as 1/3 of the mills are down for maintenance. The
cost of repairs including crane rental fees to remove a generator or blade
100 plus feet above ground gets sorta costly>>
This looks wrong. I am sure they are far more reliable than that. Without
looking at "official" figures, I can tell you that from Jersey's North coast
I frequently see the wind farm on the French coast (about 18 miles away)
and I can't ever remember seeing one "down " (5 years). I have driven though
several other wind farms in various locations and have also never seen one
stationary (unless there was no wind) or being worked on. This 1/3 figure
sounds like gross black propaganda from someone unless your US farms are
supplied by the equivalent of Walmart instead of the equivalent of
DeWalt...
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Nick Palmer
On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it
